Dumb silly and funny facts

1: A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

2: Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.

3: Most American car horns honk in the key of F, which is also the same key as a telephone dial tone.

4: A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years, from 1922-1990. They started after a 300-pound hog fell on top of him while he was getting ready to slaughter it. The hiccups stopped when he was 96, about a year before he died.

5: In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls.

6: Olive oil can be used as a hair conditioner.

7: What does a soldier keep in a frog? His bayonet

8: The first bar of chocolate was produced by Cadbury in England in 1842.

9: Coca-cola has never been patented because to do that they would have to reveal the formula.

10: Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in the early 1900s.

11: What planet has 1,600 volcanoes? Venus

12: Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

13: In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

14: Damaged bills that are torn in half are still legal tender. They can be taken to a bank to be replaced.

15: All cows are female. Male "cows" are called bulls.

16: At least 9 million other people in the world have the same birthday as you.

17: In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.

18: The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

19: What is the dot over the letter 'i' called? A tittle.

20: A snail can sleep for 3 years.

21: Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.

22: If you keep certain types of a Goldfish in the dark room, they will eventually turn white.

23: Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

24: It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.

25: Like with fingerprints, everybody has a different tongue print.

26: What is Epcot an acronym for? Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

27: There are a lot more chickens than people in the world.

28: A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

29: Who is the Greek god of music? Apollo

30: The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

31: Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

32: The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.

33: What country owns the island of Bermuda? Great Britain

34: A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

35: The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

36: Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!.

37: Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.

38: The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

39: Where were orange trees first grown? China

40: The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

41: More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

42: The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.

43: What singer recorded an album named "The IRS Tapes; Who'll Buy My Memories" to help pay his $16.7 million tax bill? Willie Nelson

44: Snakes can't blink.

45: What singer's birthday (February 6th) is a national holiday in Jamaica? Bob Marley

46: Frank and Ethel Mars introduced the Snickers bar in 1929. They named it after their family's horse.

47: American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

48: Espresso has significantly less caffeine per ounce than regular coffee.

49: The full name for the City of Los Angeles' is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

50: Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!.

51: What is Laser an acronym for? Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation